File spoon-archives/puptcrit.archive/puptcrit_1999/puptcrit.9908, message 358


From: Puppetz-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:59:14 EDT
Subject: Re:  Re: PUPT: Re: Performance/ training


For those budding puppeteers out there who are becoming discouraged because 
they feel they are lousy actors:  a couple of the best puppeteers I know are 
not-so-hot "text-based" actors.  Put them on a stage without a puppet--yawn; 
put them on a stage WITH a puppet--magic!  If you think of the voice, the 
human body, and the puppet as individual instruments used to express emotion, 
ideas, whatever, I think it follows that you don't need to know how to play 
the one, to play the other.  

BTW, neither of the puppeteers I mentioned above has any formal training as 
an actor; they still manage to pull an incredible range of feeling and nuance 
from their puppets, a range that goes far beyond mere "manipulation".  

By the BTW, Preston is right.

Anne
                                              



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